55. ASPLENIUM. § 2. NEOTTOPTEBlS. 285 



(U) A. scolopendrioltScs, ^. Sm. 



Rhizome creeping or ascending, chaffy with small, brown, lanceolate 

 scales. Stipes more or less approximate, + '/, — 4 cm. long, erect, so- 

 mewhat scaly. Fronds lanceolate, 25 — 50 cm. long, 2—4 cm. broad, the 

 apex acute or more or less suddenly caudate, the base narrowed very 

 gradually, the edge entire or more or less crenate especially towards the 

 apex which is sometimes 2 — 4-fid. Texture more or less firm; surfaces 

 naked; upper surface darker than the lower; costa prominent beneath, 

 less so above ; veins oblique, rather distant, + 2 mm. apart, often simple. 

 Sori reaching from 1—4 mm. of the costa to within 5 — 7 mm. of the 

 edge; indusiura leaving a distinct, elevated ridge on the frond when it 

 dehisces; spores prickly. 



Borneo, Pldlippines. 



(15fl) A. flliceps, Copel., in Philipp. Journ., V*^, 285. 



E.hizome woody, the scales dense, lanceolate, apiculate, dark-brown, 

 paler at the edge. Stipes close, + 10 cm. long, slender, green, minutely 

 squamulose, the scales pale-brown. Fronds simple, 20 — 24 cm. long, 

 2 — 2'/, cm. broad,, narrowed at both ends, narrowly long-caudate, obs- 

 curely serrate. Under surface- minutely squamulose; veins free. Sori 

 nearly close to the costa, not reaching the margin, to + 8 mm. long; 

 indusium whitish, persistent. 



Borneo. 



(18) A. gioclaidiatstiu, Mac. 



Differs from A. scolopendrioides J. Sm. in having the stipes longer, 

 the fronds broader, the veins less oblique, more close, + 1 mm. apart, 

 the sori close to the costa, both surfaces equally green. 



Borneo. 



(18a) A. acrohB'yiani, Clwist, in Nov. Guin., Vlll, Bot., 150. 



Rhizome succulent, thick, ascending, shortly scandent, clothed with 

 acute, lanceolate, brown scales. Stipes thick, sulcate, scattered, more 

 distinctly approximate towards the apex of the rhizome, clothed with 

 scattered, acute, lanceolate-ovate or subulate-ovate or subulate, brown 

 scales. Fronds lanceolate, ± 30 — 55 cm. long, + 4 — 6 cm. broad at 

 the middle, the base gradually decurrent upon the stipe, the margin 

 undnlate, ■ repand towards the long, narrowly acuminate apes, the acumen 



